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Post by Patrick on May 30, 2012 17:28:13 GMT
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pauldaf44
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Post by pauldaf44 on May 30, 2012 17:48:33 GMT
Thats pretty cool but I think your offside front suspension has collapsed. ;D
Pretty good detail on that model.
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Post by Patrick on May 31, 2012 10:26:28 GMT
Ah! That's an "Action Shot" - It's actually cornering at a very high speed! ;D
I was given this by the lady who working for our local taxi firm would usually take me to Primary School in the mid/late 70's. The write up on the Stahlberg models is that they only tended to be available from dealers, but one of our local model shops stocked them because I bought a Volvo 240 saloon later. Sadly though, because these are quite easy to pull apart - sort of - the front and back bumpers have come off of that one. *Looks away guiltily*
Sadly the 66 isn't "anatomically correct" underneath.
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spunkymonkey
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Post by spunkymonkey on May 31, 2012 13:33:18 GMT
Don't worry about anatomically correct underside, Patrick - after all the welding neither's Boris but he still got his MOT.
That one of yours should fly through if you change those rear lenses to proper UK spec with amber indicators! ;D
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Post by mattsdafs on May 31, 2012 16:25:10 GMT
Very nice and in a good colour also...come to think of it,i have 1 like it at the barn..slightly darker shade of blue and needs a little tlc  ;D ;D |
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Post by 33grinder on May 31, 2012 17:13:36 GMT
Very nice and in a good colour also...come to think of it,i have 1 like it at the barn..slightly darker shade of blue and needs a little tlc ;D ;D Yes, but your model is scale 1:1 Matt and needs more than a dab of airfix glue to fix it!  |
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Post by joe on May 31, 2012 19:54:34 GMT
I have often longed for a 1:18 scale Daf to sit on one of my bookshelves. Looks like I have to track one of these down!
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on May 31, 2012 20:39:10 GMT
Those plastic Finnish models have remarkably good detailing for the body but also the interior/trim, right down to the pattern on the seats, dashboard and steering wheel.
I've got the same model, but white in colour - but sadly not the cardboard box.
Well worth searching these out. They also made a Volvo 343.
I remember I bought mine in the early 1980s from, of all places, I kid you not, a branch of Boots the Chemists! (I had orginally gone in probably for some medicinal supplies but came out with a toy Volvo)
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Post by dafdaffer on May 31, 2012 23:13:34 GMT
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Post by Patrick on Jun 1, 2012 0:04:35 GMT
The Volvo 164 on ebay currently at £165 is a rather jaw dropping price! I used to have a rather nice Polistil 164 E in Green that was one of their better ones. That was lost to the midst of time. Through a fluke of storage we do have pretty much all the model cars we collected as children, including a bag of rather sad Dinky buses and Trucks from the 1940's that belonged to my Dad. Mostly tyre-less and with the odd missing headlamp and tyres. Spent the other day just going through them and moving them to plastic storage rather than piled in cardboard boxes.
Astonishing the prices folk ask now!
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Post by dafdaffer on Jun 3, 2012 18:15:22 GMT
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Post by Richard DAF Webmeister on Jun 3, 2012 22:02:38 GMT
Fab! That's the one.
Another example of amazing detail. All plastic, too.
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Post by Patrick on Jun 4, 2012 22:56:52 GMT
The only thing I wonder about is the slight "droop" that the 66 has at the rear end and the 343 towards the front. (or is that just me?)
Pity they didn't expand the range really.
343 also seems more similar to the prototype "DAF" than the final Volvo version - Maybe that's just the only way they could mould the windows, but you never know.
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Post by dafdaffer on Jun 5, 2012 19:26:20 GMT
i do agree, although i think that its been stood on ;D
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Post by andrejuan on Jul 22, 2017 18:19:37 GMT
Ah! That's an "Action Shot" - It's actually cornering at a very high speed! ;D I was given this by the lady who working for our local taxi firm would usually take me to Primary School in the mid/late 70's. The write up on the Stahlberg models is that they only tended to be available from dealers, but one of our local model shops stocked them because I bought a Volvo 240 saloon later. Sadly though, because these are quite easy to pull apart - sort of - the front and back bumpers have come off of that one. *Looks away guiltily* Sadly the 66 isn't "anatomically correct" underneath.[/b] Interestingly (well to me at least) the smaller GUILOY model was anatomically correct underneath, but the belts were at the front and the engine at the back !! |
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